Social Impact

Since the early 1980s, metros and other major cities have charted unprecedented growths owing to their ability to attract investment, technology and manpower to build the modern ICT sector. However, the semi-urban and rural areas of India to a great extent remain untouched by any technological development. Hence, geographically, AISECT has picked its points of intervention between the district and the Panchayat levels.

Over the years, AISECT has significantly helped foster technology precipitated growth in semi-urban and rural India. Some of the key impacts of the organization’s endeavours are listed below:

AISECT has pioneered the concept of ‘Multi-Purpose Utility of an ICT Training Centre’ to offer training as well as B2C, B2B & G2C services through one single centre

In order to demystify IT and communicate with people in their local language, AISECT pioneered IT content creation in Hindi and other regional languages. This coupled with the requisite awareness drives, raised the level of utilization and understanding of technology in the semi urban and rural parts of the country

The AISECT entrepreneurship model has given birth to over 12,000 rural entrepreneurs and has generated further employment for more than 50,000 people within the network at the district, block and panchayat levels

About 16 lakh rural students have graduated from various vocational and skill development courses offered by AISECT thereby, becoming more employable. Furthermore, the organization has partnered with the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) to impart skill-based training to another 13 lakh people in the next 10 years

Since 1985, lakhs of weaker sections of society, including school students, graduate program students, office goers, working women, housewives, Below Poverty Line Youth, Panchayati Raj Institutions, Parent Teacher Associations and Government Departments, have benefitted from AISECT’s unique initiatives

Prestigious Central and State Government skilling and capacity building projects, targeted towards all sections of society, have been successfully executed by the organization. These projects include Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY), Indira Suchana Shakti Yojana, Swashakti Project, ATMA Project and UNDP’s Adult Legal Literacy Program. As part of the SGSY Project, AISECT has conducted the training of about 13,000 Below Poverty Line Youth in Madhya Pradesh with successful placement for over 80% of the trained youth though multiple Rojgar Melas

Lakhs of rural families have benefitted from the citizen services delivered to them through more than 6,000 AISECT Centres across Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Punjab as part of the organization’s initiatives under the Common Service Centre (CSC) Project. These CSCs have enabled State and Central Government agencies to directly link up with citizens for Government to Consumer (G2C) services without a long chain of intermediaries, thereby minimizing operational costs and reducing systemic red tape as well as service delays thus, leading to transparency in governance

The organization has taken banking and financial services to the remotest corners of the country through its initiatives under Financial Inclusion scheme. As the Business Correspondent for 26 nationalized banks including the State Bank of India, AISECT has set up over 1,400 banking kiosks across rural, semi-urban and urban India which cater to over 10 lakh customers each day, are linked to over 600 bank branches, have opened more than 18 lakh bank accounts and conduct around 600 crore worth of daily transactions. The organization is also offering renewal premium collection services for insurance companies like SBI Life

‘RojgarMantra.com’ has been launched to assist skilled workforce in getting gainful employment in local companies at the small town, district and block levels. With 2 lakh job seekers and hundreds of employers already registered with the portal, Rojgar Mantra has become the biggest rural job placement initiative of India

AISECT has established several premier higher education institutions at locations which were in dire need of quality higher education institutions. Central India’s first private university, the Dr. C.V. Raman University was established in 2006 in the scheduled area of Kota Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh. In a span of merely 7 years, the University has transformed the region’s access to higher education and has empowered over 85,000 students with industry-oriented skills. Moreover, AISECT University was launched in 2012 in Raisen district of Bhopal as Madhya Pradesh’s first premium university

Through Eduvantage PRO, AISECT is making low cost, high quality interactive multimedia content in English and Hindi easily available to K-12 school students at the small town, district and block levels. The extremely low cost of the product and availability of the content in English and Hindi make the latest offering from the house of AISECT a boon not only for private schools but for Government schools as well